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.sFoOls Rush in, Where Angels Fear
TO Tread

So impetuous youth is often given to folly
and indiscretions and, as result, nervous
mental and organic debility follow, memory
is impaired, sef-confdence is lacking; at
night bad dreams occur, premature old age
seems setting in, ruin is in the track. In
confidence. you can, and should write to
DR.. r. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y, the au.
thor of q treatise for the benefit of that class
of patients, and describe your symptoms aud
sufferings. He can cure you at your home,
and will send you full particulars By mail
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The steamer LADY OF THE LAKE will
leave her wharf EVERY MONDAY, WEDNES-
DAY and SATURDAY at o'clock p. m.
Fare, frst-class, 81 so; round trip, $3.50.
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

MRS. WINDOWS SOOTHING SYRUP, for chill.
dren teething, is the prescription of one of the
best female nurses and physicians in the United
States, and has been used for forty years with
never-failing success by millions OF mothers foI
their children. During the process Of teethins
its value is incalculable. It relieves the child
from pain, cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping
in the bowels, and wind-colic. By giving health
to the childi rests the mother. Price 25 cents 8
bottle. mY5-1yrM.W&6
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MEDICINAL.


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Headache, Neuralgis, Nervousness slcepiessness,
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druggists BENSON CHEMICAL COMPANY, 521
North Howard street, Baltimore, Nd.
DIR. BENsoN's SKIN CURE FOR ALL SKIN
DISEASES aug20 eo1y
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OFFICERS. DIRECTORS
President NC
Senator
Secretary WILLIAM s. oDELL D.
Hon.
Vice President BARTON, ).
Hon. Pea
U. .s.N
Washn D.. c.
encra Manage, CUNNINGHAM WILLIAM oDEL.
ackbery,A Arizona.
The capital stock of this company $625 00O divided 62O00
shares of 81 each.
The company incorporated under the laws of West Virginia and
the stock nonaeable and with personal liability
the holder.
The GOLD MINING COMPANY location Music Mountains A Il
sound mining enterprise placed the market and its
possibilities have been exceeded Every share should double
value within year. and they quadrupe they based
property that would ordinarily have been capitalized 0 times
great account of its known richness and promise
The shares made small that any Subscriptions
for five shares welcome as those for hundreds.
Every dollar of earnings will go the stockholders in dividends
there is nothing else that they can be used for
Wsewe MILL capacity 20 per day. with powerful machinery
has been purchased and will be the ground ready for erection the
mine within the next thirty days
The solid basis upon which the company founded and the practical
the richness of the have already secured the confidence
the public and the stock has steadily advanced selling value
Within the last few days bona d sales been made
There better the market for investment
For full information regard to this Mine apply the
SECRETARY Room 40 LIE Droit Building,
o,s WASHINGTON, D. G.
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The steamers of this company mako connec.
tions at Norfolk for all points East; at New
York with all points West and Northwest, and at
Alexandria with Virginia Midland Railway and
Washington and Ohio Railroad. Through rates
given and freight handled carefully and promptly
For further information apply to
F. A. REED & CO., Agent,
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Persons learing the city haue the Gasette mailed
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THE ALEXANDRIA
Real Estate Investment, Trust and Iitle
Company.

06fce-No. 4 south Fdirfar st. Telephone No. 2.
President, PARK AGNEW.
Vice Pr sident, JAMES L. CATION.
sect'y and Treasurer, N. s. HARLOW.
HAVE FOR SALE
large list of city and country property. consist
ing of FARMS, MILL PROPERTY, DWELLING
HOUSES, VACANT LOTS, sc.
All persons desiring to buy or sell real estate.
or TO negotiate loans upon real estate security,
will find it to their advantage to give US cali.
In all investments made by us upon real estate
security we guarantee the most careful cxamina-
tion into the questions o. title and suiicency of
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rT1HE ENTERPRISE MEAT CHOPPER is the
Il best; does not grind the meat, like other
cutters, but CHOPS 1T. 1t is useful for many
purposes ALL THE YEAR ROUND in preparing
chicken salad, beef tea, mince meat, hash, &c.
For sale by JAS. F. CARLIN & SONS,
noy3 Alexandria, Va
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J.W. THOMPSON, President.
1416 street,
san2Ttf Washington. D. G..
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Tho next session will begin on Tuesday, Sept.
Goth. The Music Department-vocal and instru-
mental-will be in charge of Mrs. NJ. C. Wales,
of the New England Conservatory of Music.
Nine. Bailhache Ehrmann, a native of France,
and an accomplished and experienced teacher,
will take charge of the French classes
Circulars, stating terms &C. can be obtained at
French's bookstore or at the Institute.
REBECCA c. POWELL,
aug19 toct1 Principal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Strategy of the Yankee Girls.

Twenty nice-loohing young ladies in
o Massachusetts, town, little more
than three years ago, looked about
them and saw that there were many
spinstcrs in that portion of the country.
They bethought them of q scheme,
which was to be kept profound secret
for a considerable period of time. They
formed themselves into a society and
adopted q constitution, declaring that
marriage is q humbug, that the wedding
ring is fetter, and that men are a
nuisance. They pledged themselves
very solemnly that they. would never
marry. Time passed, as it has way of
doing. Those girls Immediately came
into good demand. They were for
hidden fruit, as it were. How the boys
did long for them. To-day the society
exists no longer. 1t has been deader
than Cleopatra for almost two years.
Eleven of those girls have husbands
and babies; six others have husbands
and no babies, and two are engaged to
be married when "the flowers bloom in
the spring, ira Ia"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
ABOUT WOMEN.
Matters and Things in Which
Our Fair Readers Are
Interested.
NUMEROUS SWEET MORSELS.
A Little Humor, Bit Of Poetry, and Som
Breezy Gossip About Modest Nd
irons and Giddy Girls.
The Secret Of Dress.

1t is the wearer who makes a success
of dress, and great secret of the
Partisan dressmakers' art is that they
adapt their fashions to the individual
customer, and happily, if the wearer be
a Frenchwoman, they meet with hearty
cooperation. There are few who do
not understand what suits them. They
make study of face, figure, and car
riage, and, though their garments are
costly, they do not have too many OF
them. They make each new dress a
part of themselves, and realize its effect
in motion and in repose. They raise
the "toilet" to the dignity of fine art,
and, moreover, succeed in producing q
perfect result. The colors now worn
in Paris. are most daring in their combi-
nation, but they are 80 skillfully
handled that they never produce dis
cordant effect.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Tit for Tat.

Women will meet any and every de-
mand in relation to the high hat--as
we say-on one condition. The condi-
ton is far simpler than anything pro-
posed to them. 1t is merely that the
male part of the audience shall keep
their seats throughout the action of the
play, that they shall not be allowed to
go stepping, and striding, and pushing,
and squeezing past the feminine part of
the audience in order to go out between
the acts, obliging every woman either
to be stepped over or else to gather her
cloak, her furs, her scarf, her muff, her
program, her opera-glass, and erect
herself and push back her seat, and
clutch her properties again and hold
them breathless for another rise when
the miscreants come back and oblige
her to do it all over again, and have
their breath blown in her face the
while. These women say, then, that
when managers make regulation
obllging men who wish to go out be-
tween the acts to take certain seats bv
themselves they will acquiesce in one
obliging them to sit without their bon
nets; and it is their belief that when no
man in the thcater forces lady to en-
dure this annoyance and outrage every
lady in the house will be willing to leave
her bonnet at home. -Ka7per's Buzay.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Negro 1'aJes a,a Uashi4gton.

New York girls are hard to beat when
it comes to question Of new wrinkles,
but the Washington girls are fully
capable of keeping up their end of the
procession. The bill to provide every
member Of Congress with clerk seems
to have imbued every girl in Washing
ton with the idea that it would be quite
the proper thing to have young negro
boy for page, to answer the door-bell
run errands, and follow her on her
shopping-tours like dismounted out
rider. The idea has caught the popular
fancy, and black pages in full livery are
all the rage. Clothed in gay colors
with crests or initials on the large but
tons, the little dark;es are now to be
seen everywhere about the city, follow.
ing their mistresses on their shopping
tours OF when they go calling, and on
reception days stand at the door with a
illver waiter for the reception cards.
1t is very hard, however, to discipline
chem, and on one or two occasions thew
have made statements to visitors which
caused great deal OF trouble, especi-
ally at the house of Brigadier Gen
era!, where the visitor was told, after
waiting some time: II can't find missus
though she was here just now, but ]
guess she must have seen Tou comm,
and slipped out the back way. "-Sa.
va1111ah Nelrs.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17

She was aroused late in the morning by
party Of her friends, with their pastor at
their head, who stood silent before her,
| when she bade them enter.
! She did not seem surprised to see them,
and they wero at a loss as to how they had
\ best make known their errand.
"You would tell me of James, she said,
before their spokesman could frame his
opening sentence.
Her voice sounded cold and hard, and
her face wore the calmness of despair.
"You must prepare yourself, my dear
madam" began the clergyman, but she in
terrapted him, in the same measured tones:
Gle is dead. I know it. He came to
mo this morning."
The mon looked as1lance at each other.
Was the woman mad? Had she read their
message in their faces and her grief
| driven her wild?
Before the question of her burning eyes
they could only repeat, with stil!ed hearts
and white lips: Gle is dead"
The news spread rapidly, for Dr. Edger-
ton was we'll and widely known, and the
house was soon filed with sympathizing
friends and neishbors.
And there, with her SORROW, We will leave
her, since our story is rather of the night
than of her.
Little remains to be told. Two farmers,
sent By an early GRAND downward, dis
covered q horse nearly buried in the snow,
and farther on the form Of man, the
physician.
He had evidently abandoned his horse,
and benumbcd with cold and bewildered
by the storm, his fate had overtaken him.
1t was an hours drive. in. pleasant
weather, from the home of DR.. Edgertons
patient to his residence.
He had been unable to leave the place
until II o'clock, when, resisting all per-
suasions to tho contrary, he had UNDER
taken the journey homeward.
The physicians said that life had probably
beon extinct several hours. A short ex-
pos,;re to such intense cold would DE fatal
10 stronger man that he. In an hour at
most, he must have persisted, perhaps at
o'clock. We think OF it with thrill! was
not that the very moment his mother felt
his cold lips en- her brow9
Call his presence with her at that time
dream if you like; sho will tell you that it
is not so, but that the subtle link of
strong affection, the sympathy of mind with
mind, that bound them together SO closely
in life, enabled him to come to her in
death. Perhaps she is right, who knows?
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17

the same atmosphere that gave it birth.
One season of dancing, gaslisht, and
late hours blights the tea-rose. But
she makes up for its loss by her bright
ness and her clothes. She is justly re-
nowncd for the most stylish manners
and best-made dresses of any woman IN
America. A stylish manner does not OF
necessity mean the best manner, but
the manner which is most fashionable
ct the moment. There are fashions IN
manners as there are in clothes, and
these the New York girl is as sharp as
a needle at seeing, and clever Us star
actress at adopting. Some years ago
that ugly fashion came in for excitable
manners, when the girls talked so fast
and gasped so you felt as if the whole
female portion OF the town spent its life
in running to catch trains. In one week
they all broke out in it. Not o girl
who was anybody retained her old form
of address. Since then the English
manner has come in. The use of the
broad "a" fell on them like pestilence.
Not an "a" was left to pursue the even
tenor of its way unmolested. The word
"lady" was pronounced bad form, and
woman" substituted; gentlemen
friends" was boycotted, and "men that
Iknow" took its place. Inaprematurely
short time the change was effected,
and one could not but believe that it
was the work of years. Now the Ian
guild manner is chic. The girls who
gasped and nearly fell into spasms four
years ago ore half asleep to-day. You
would not believe they were the same
creatures. The quick turns of the
head, the rapid gestures of the hand,
all, all are gone into the limbo of the
past, and drowsy. magnificent languor
reigns in their stead.-Lettcr IN San
Francisco .1rgonaut.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17

| Some time passed, and Reginald re-
ceived no answer to his letter, and they
heard that his uncle's house was to be
sold by auction.
1t was dark and stormy night preceding
the day of the sale. In his room, with the
curtains drawn, and no fire on the cherries
hearth, sat DIR. Wilton. All he had was
gone-at one fell blow. knowing his re-
sources. he had carelessly contracted debts,
and now he was unable TO pay them.
What should he do?
The bent figure, with its white head.
YEARLY lifted itself, and going to the win
dow drew back the curtain.
The old man stood there for while
watching the few travellers plodding along
through the rain. Perhaps some of these
people would whisper through his halls
tomorrow, while he-where would he be
then?
he slowly walked across the long room
to an e>critoire which stood at the farther
end. In it lay an end to trouble; his hand
is on the knob, when patter of little feet
is at the door; and running into the room
comes fairy figure with its hands full of
rose-buis.
Straight to tho astonished old man tie
little one runs, and then holding the roses
to him with one hand, she slides the other
in:o ais, and raises her innocent lips to be
kissed.
lie is saved! Fast tie tears fall down his
face as he clasps the soft hand tightly.
"Ah; know; it is Reginald's child"
"1es. and Reginald, tco!" exclaimed an
eager voice.
Annie little thought when she told her
baby daughter what to do as she went into
the room how nearly tragedy had been
enacted there. She never knew; and in
after years she oftentimes wondered at the
strange look which would pass over the
old mans face when little Bello would slip
her soft hand into his.
1t was Re:ribution, but tina. dread visit
ant had come in angel guise.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
-iEEHEI'S RIDE.

NJ. Alexander Majors, the pionee
freighter and stager of the great West
last night recounted the story Of An
brey's famous ride from Sante To \
NJ, to Independence, Mo-, the latte
place at that time being the point iron
which freighting was done through til
West and South to the Pacific SLOPE
Aubrey was French Canadian, snll
OF stature, but compactly built, Gid !
that time was not over So years. y
made the ride on horseback betvet'
Santa Fe and Independence on t''
different occasions. The first tina
1S49, on a wager of 81, 900 that he e9a'
make the ride in eight days. The a''
lance was $50 miles. He accomplish
1t at the expense of the lives Of coap'
of horses and won his wager. lh
second time he wagered that he COW
make the ride in six days. This was'
the summer Of 1850. He left Santa y
early in July. In order to win Oh
wager it was necessary to ride an a's'
age OF 100 miles per day, that is ever!
twenty-four hours. The wager 'p
time was $1,000 Aubrey made arraIs'
ment with the semi-monthly stage ID, !,
was then running between lndepsA'
ence and Santa Fe to bring him sever
horses from Independence. There WEI
only two Or three stations on the fc'
between the two places at that 'l'-s
and his arrangements were such as
allow him to change horses about o''
every twenty-four hours. This W. =
Aubrey's famous ride, and was the '''
OF the whole Western country for ye'',
lie made it in five days and thlsn w.
hours, and I have always believed ' ~,
he was the only man in the world '''
could have accomplished it, HIS :. :.
durance was wonderful. Think OF ',
ing steadily in the saddle and ridlns ,
the speed he did for almost six days
81 I'oa4is Republican.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Scif-Nnde VOs,.en.

We hear a great deal about self-made
men, and now Celia Logan, herself q
self-made woman, has compiled some
interesting facts concerning some
women who are we'll known at the pres
ent time, from which it appears that
some of the most noted began life very
humbly.
Lucy Larcom was mill hand.
Pretty Maud Granger, with the gold
brown eyes and shapely form, first
earned her livelihood by running a
sewing-machine.
Sarah Bernhard was q dressmakcr's
apprentice; so was Matilda Heron.
Adelaide Nelson began life as a
child's nurse.
Miss Braddon, the novelist, was a
utility actress in the English provinces.
Anna Dickinson began life as a school
teacher.
Charlotte Cushman was the daughter
of poor people.
Nell Gwynn sold oranges in the
streets and theaters. From the pit,
while vending her wares. she tool! a
fancy for the stage.
Mrs. Langtry is the daughter of a
country parson of small means, but the
old proverb of her face being her for
tune, proved true in her case.
Edmonia Lewis, the sculptor, is col
ored. Overcoming the prejudice
against her sex and color, and self-edu-
Gated, Miss Lewis is now successfully
pursuing her profession in Italy.
The great French actress Rachel had
as hard childhood as ever fell to the
lot of genius. Ragged barefoot, and
hungry, she played the tambourine in
the streets, and sang and begged for a
dole. Naturally she was illiterate and
vulgar.
Christine Nilsson was poor Swedish
peasant, and ran barefoot in childhood.
Jennie Lind, also Swede, was the
daughter of a principal of young
ladies' boarding-school.
Minnie Hanks father was German
and shoemaker, in the most straight
ened circumstances. Her voice early
attracted the attention Of one of New
York s richest men who lad it cult
waited.
Adelaide Phillips, the singer, now
dead, was very poor girl, and so was
Sarah Jewett, the actress.
The mother Of Clara Louise Kellcro
strained every nerve to give Clara a
musical education, and at one time was
a professional spiritual medium. Miss
kellogg failed three times.
Miss Maria Mitchell, the astronomer
was the daughter OF small farmer in
Nantucket who wa obliged to eke out
his income by teaching school at 50 g.
week. Maria was constantly occunied
with household duties.
The most renowned woman who
sprang from the lowliest estate was
Jeanne d Arc, who fed swine.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
Il SLIGHT Observation-Disclosures.

A story Of Southern politics was
picked UP at Townsville by Mr.. Van
Zandt. A politician who was running
for Office desired to secure the negro
vote, and had bought up colored
preacher who agreed for SIS to make
an address to his congregation in favor
Of the candidate. The politician said to
the clergyman: II think the best way
for you to influence your people is to
let them understand that am Neither a
Democrat nor Republican, but an old
line Wing. 1t is best to break up the
feeling that exists between Democrats
and Republican and start out on new
line, and this is just as good time as
any to do it." When the Clergyman
got up in his pulpit and began talking
to his audience he followed the advice
of the politician in this manner: "My
dear bredren, YOU are not to pronounce
upon Massa Blank for the sins of
omission or commission by eder dc
Democratic or Republican party. NIassa
Blank am neder q Democrat or Rapub-
lican. He is simply lynn old Wing"
When the politician heard of it he tore
his hair. -Ne1U York Tribune.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-17
A BE11Es SAD HISTORY.

A roly-.poly little girl
Was when l was eight,
Rosy and round with ciust'ring hair.
1naver could got straight;
And everybody used to soy
When passed through tho street:
4just SEQ the du,nplingi Doesn't she
Look good enough to oatl"
q. twelve was the cnvy of
n'hs other girls ut school;
AS fresh and blooming us Il rosc,
The boys used to rule;
And Cousin Will at Christmas timo
In an admiring tono
Exclaimed the moment that VIC mot;
.Why, Mollie, how you've growni"
At sixteen 1 was quito bel!c.
My skirts were heightened out.
And conquests by tho score nado
AT party, ball, and rout.
Ny form WAS peffect. oil tho girls
Declared, and not q fow
Sighed: "Oh, dear, Mol. how do wish
were us plump ns your
Ales! if could only havc
stopped growing thore and theni
was the envy of tho girls,
Admired by nll tho mon.
But every year stoutrr grow,
Beaux left FAC aftcr that.-
And now hear them Whispering:
Good ..gac:sws amt shc fat!"
JaMr7nl.